=========================================================================== BBS: The Abacus * HST/DS * Potterville MI Date: 03-01-93 (15:27) Number: 16 From: VICTOR YIU Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: PostIt! 5.0 1/11 Conf: (35) Quick Basi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- '> Hi, All! ' I have decided to add COMPRESSION to PostIt! and fix some bugs... ' so after 5 hours of work, here comes 5.0! ' Now, posting binary files will take up less space in the echos! Save ' the next 11 messages as POSTIT50.BAS and it's ready to run! 'Victor '________O_/________________________| SNIP |______________________\_O_______ ' O \ | HERE | / O 'This file created by PostIt! v5.0. '>>> Start of page 1. ' ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» ' º PostIt! THE Binary <-> BASIC Script Creator º ' ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ' * * * ' ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» ' º Postit! v5.0 by Rich Geldreich 1992 º ' ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ ' º Loader further optimizied by Jim Giordano º ' ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ ' º User Interface and Graphical embellishments by º ' º Mark H Butler & Quinn Tyler Jackson º ' ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ ' º Ability to post and wrap plain code - as text! º ' º Based on MsgSplit by Scott Wunsch and Victor Yiu. º ' ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ ' º And now, with compression to reduce the echo band- º ' º width required to post your file, from Victor Yiu! º ' ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ' 'Purpose: ' To enable the posting of compressed listings on a text only net. ' This program takes a binary input file and converts it to a series ' of small, postable files which other people can capture and run to ' get the original binary file. ' 'Instructions: ' Just follow the prompts. You give the input & output filenames, ' the page length and the number of lines you want reserved for your ' stuff and it does the rest. If nothing is inputted for a prompt, a ' default value will be used for it instead. ' ' 'Additions by Victor Yiu: ' (28 February 1993) ' Now, save an average of 10% on posting object files! This version ' includes compression of duplicate characters. Also fixes several ' bugs and quirks (visual & operational), and adds a disk buffer for ' increased conversion speed. The text wrapping problem with ' quotes has also been totally elimintated; now, the comments ' starting later in the line extending past the wrap will not be ' messed up during splitting, as is was before. Twirler was ' optimized/fixed (MsgSplit). Loader was optimized more, but more ' code had to be added on to handle compression. ' ' Compression documentation & statistics in FUNCTION Compress$... ' 'Additions by Scott Wunsch: ' (13 February 1993) ' PostIt! is no longer just for binary files! It can be used to post ' BASIC code, and will do so in text format. Code will be word- ' wrapped appropriately, and underscores inserted to allow QB/PDS to ' put it back together again for you. Unlike past code-wrapping ' programs, PostIt! can even handle quoted strings properly. ' 'Additions by Mark Butler: ' (8-30-1992) ' Postit! output filename now defaults to the input filename if none ' is given. If the input filename is 8 characters in length the ' default output filename will be truncated to the first 7 characters ' of the input filename. The default output extension is now "BAS" ' instead of nothing. I also added a little bit of text mode "screen ' magic" to further augment Quinn T. Jackson's copyright screen and ' warning screen additions. Fixed bug from version 2.8 that caused ' succeeding output files after the first one to overwrite the same ' filename due to the filename number suffix not incrementing. I also ' caused the program to skip the opening screens if an input filename ' is entered from the command line when the program is run. (I didn't ' think folks wanted to see those screens *every* time they wanted to ' use PostIt! Sometimes ya just want to get on with it right?) ' (9-1-1992) ' Hardcoded a CHR$(32) (a space character) to the end of each full ' length G-sub data line in the attempt to thwart line truncation in ' transit on the Net. Just a theory that I hope is correct! -> MHB ' 'Additions and Modifications by Quinn Tyler Jackson (August 22, 1992): ' ' Postit! now prints a warning screen, warning users of possible ' abuse of binary-to-text posts. Also, instead of the old '80% DONE' ' meter, this version uses a graphical bar that looks like this: ' ' ²²²±±±±±±±±±± (One block=2% completion.) ' ' I have also added a nice starting screen, giving Rich credit where ' it is due! Bells and whistles, boys! ' '>>> Continued on page 2. --- Blue Wave/RA v2.10 [NR] * Origin: Hard Disc Cafe / Houston Texas / (713) 589-2690 / Node -*N (1:106/30. 0) SEEN-BY: 1/211 11/2 4 13/13 101/1 108/89 109/25 110/69 114/5 123/19 124/1 SEEN-BY: 153/752 154/40 77 157/2 159/100 125 430 950 203/23 209/209 280/1 SEEN-BY: 390/1 396/1 15 397/2 2230/100 3603/20